Ethiopia

Facts

What the numbers say about Ethiopia

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 15.1× the size of Ethiopia.
• At 114 people per km², Ethiopia is the 59th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Ethiopia lies at 9°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.0×.
• Laid out flat, Ethiopia's main territory stretches about 1,280 km north to south and 1,650 km east to west.
• Our measured 1,127,000 km² is 2.1% above Wikidata's official figure of 1,104,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

How Ethiopia measures up

Ethiopia holds 3.8% of the land area and 9.1% of the people of the 54 countries listed for Africa. In Eastern Africa it is the 1st largest of 17.

Where Ethiopia sits

• Ethiopia's centre lies at 8.6°N, 39.6°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 960 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 3°N to 15°N, about 1,280 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Ethiopia had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Ethiopia would have 1.41 billion people. It has 128.7 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Ethiopia would have 4.2 million people. It has 128.7 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 81.6 million.

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